In others words, Americans felt Irish Americans immigrants happened to be lazy drunks and didn’t belong here. Americans felt that Irish immigrants brought over diseases as well, for example, Kevin Kenney says, Irish immigrants endured high rates of cholera, yellow fever, tuberculosis and pneumonia (Kenney). These caused a big scare among Americans and perhaps cause some of the discrimination. Another form of discrimination also came in the work place, such as, when Irish immigrants need to find work. Richard Jensen says, “The Irish American community harbors a deeply held belief that it was the victim of systematic job discrimination in America, and that the discrimination was done publicly in highly humiliating fashion through signs that announced ‘Help Wanted: No Irish Need Apply.’” Unlike men women sometime had better opportunities; Richard Jensen writes, “newspaper ads for women sometimes did include NINA, but Irish women nevertheless dominated the market for domestics because they provided a reliable supply of an essential service” (Jensen 405).
As a result, parishes are having to pay out large amounts of relief to these people and therefore the community suffers as a whole. The source also suggests that the government should be stricter on the paupers who do not work or attempt to support their family. “The government has overturned the ordinary laws of nature.” This quote tells me that the government have decided to use Jeremy Bentham’s idea of utilitarianism and bring happiness to the greatest number of people. As a result of this, the cost of poor relief rocketed, which highly contributed to the demise of the old Poor Law. In some ways Sources 1 and 3 back up the claim in source 2 that the weaknesses of the old Poor Law were largely down to the paupers themselves because both sources represent the paupers in a mainly negative way.
However what had formerly been viewed as a charity program aimed at helping helpless mothers, and females, was now being seen as a waste of time and money. America’s increasing economic problem caused great resentment toward welfare programs and to their recipients. White middle class America did not like the ideas of their tax money going to support other, especially when many of the white middle class had full time jobs. Nationalized reports of welfare fraud were all it took to convince the middle class that all welfare recipients were lying and cheating the system. Americans who felt overtaxed had something to blame it on now the more they resented welfare the worse the stereotype became, soon they were all drug users, who never intended to work just live off welfare, and the only reason that their children were starving is that they were spending the money on other things.
Since no one accepted a realistic proposal he offered, “a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food.”He was suggesting that poor Irish families could sell their children as food to the wealthy for money. His satirical proposal was meant to mock the heartless attitudes towards the poor and British policy in Ireland. In this proposal, Swift also wanted to search for a solution for, “preventing the children of poor people in Ireland from being a burden to their parents or country.” Life was so difficult that begging was the only way families could survive. The streets were filled with mothers who begged for money or food for their children. Children would usually be sold as slaves, become thieves, or leave Ireland to fight.
6). Institutional discrimination was forced upon the Irish immigrants. They were discriminated against from the time they arrived in the United States by a vast group of communities. The Irish were treated as they were just drunken troublemakers who were out to steal the jobs and income from the community. The Irish were close-knit group of people who stayed together staying strong in their cultures and beliefs, and this was seen to others as a refusal to pledge their allegiance to America.
How far do sources 1,2 and 3 suggest that the main obstacle to solving the Irish national problem was religion? Source 1 is from the Fenians who were extreme nationalists and Catholics meaning the source is going to be bias from the Catholic point of view. It was issued in 1867 the same year Gladstone came to power. The source begins with a quote ‘An alien aristocracy seized our lands and all material wealth and trampled on our rights and liberties’. This source tell us that the Irish believed the English Protestants had no reason to be in Ireland and the only reason they were there was as an oppressive power.
This unhappiness began to manifest itself in violent opposition from large numbers of peasant, particularly in the wealthier agricultural areas, as they had more to lose to the state that the poorer farmers. Rather than allow their property to go to the collective, these farmers would set fire to their land and slaughter their livestock. These oppositions were dealt with by the dekulakisation squads, who were often ruthless in the way that they eliminated peasant and kulak opposition alike . The government quickly eliminated most of the
Poverty around the world is recognized and known by everyone but overlooked just as equally. People focus on the luxuries and expenses and don’t realize the help all this money would serve to the unfortunate thousands struggling to make ends meat. All the designer shoes and over priced handbags will eventually turn into last week’s fashion, but will sparing a child’s life be as simple to forget? In the article The Singer Solution To World Poverty, Peter Singer portrays many different hypothetical scenarios contrasting some people’s upfront selfishness to world poverty and other people’s disguised selfishness toward it. The author explains that many Americans, middle class, unknowingly refuse to aid the elimination toward poverty around
A Modest Proposal is a pamphlet that Jonathan Swift composed in objection to the cruel actions toward Catholics of Ireland by the English absentee landlords. As the proposal begins, it appears to be the solution to solve hunger, and poverty and overpopulation. The issue with overpopulation; It is too many poor peasants living on the streets. Swift suggest Homeless mothers “breed more children” then they can care for and turn to begging. He refers to these children as thieves or disloyal, as they would soon leave Dublin to fight for another country.Swift explains that "it is agreed by all parties" that the overpopulation of children is a problem that is "a very great additional grievance" to the current "deplorable state" of Ireland.
Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, shows the difference between social classes through the use of geography. Full of hopelessness and dull lives, the valley of ashes defines the wasteland that they live in and the way their lives have become a waste of time in the end, since they will never achieve anything because of the corruption of money. Unfashionable and vulgar, the West Egg represents the way of life for new money. They overdo the attempt to imitate others and cause people to know they fake their lives. In contrast to the West Egg, the people who live in the East Egg have high social class, good taste in everything, but have many flaws.